{"product_id":"they-eat-our-sweat-transport-labor-corruption-and-everyday-survival-in-urban-nigeria-hardcover","title":"They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel E. Agbiboa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption. In contrast to this tendency, \u003cem\u003eThey Eat Our Sweat\u003c\/em\u003e offers a fresh and engaging look at the corruption complex in Africa through a micro analysis of its informal transport sector, where collusion between state and nonstate actors is most rife. Focusing on Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital and Africa's largest city, Daniel Agbiboa investigates the workaday world of road transport operators as refracted through the extortion racket and violence of transport unions acting in complicity with the state. Steeped in an embodied knowledge of Lagos and backed by two years of thorough ethnographic fieldwork, including working as an informal bus conductor, Agbiboa provides an emic perspective on precarious labour, popular agency and the daily pursuit of survival under the shadow of the modern world\u003cbr\u003esystem. Corruption, Agbiboa argues, is not rooted in Nigerian culture but is shaped by the struggle to get by and get ahead on the fast and slow lanes of Lagos. The pursuit of economic survival compels transport operators to participate in the reproduction of the very transgressive system they denounce. \u003cem\u003eThey Eat Our Sweat\u003c\/em\u003e is not just a book about corruption but also about transportation, politics, and governance in urban Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel E. Agbiboa, \u003cem\u003eHarvard University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel E. Agbiboa\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He earned a PhD in International Development from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the relationships between state and nonstate actors in contemporary Africa. He is the recipient of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award, and is a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His books include \u003cem\u003eTransport, Transgression and Politics in African Cities: The Rhythm of Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2018), and \u003cem\u003ePeople, Predicaments and Potentials in Africa\u003c\/em\u003e (Langaa RPCIG, 2021). He has authored articles in leading journals such as \u003cem\u003ePublic Culture, Current History\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e African Studies Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e African Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eJournal of Modern African Studies\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42727935705151,"sku":"9780198861546","price":196.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5c3df00941582ee6ddc766650800c9b2.webp?v=1765116646","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/they-eat-our-sweat-transport-labor-corruption-and-everyday-survival-in-urban-nigeria-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}